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FALL 2007 SCHEDULE : CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING

Date Film Title Series Friday, September 7, 7:30 p.m. Monogatari Mizoguchi Saturday, September 8, 7:30 p.m. To the Stars by Hard Way Russian Sci-Fi Saturday, September 8, 9:40 p.m. First on the Moon Russian Sci-Fi Friday, September 14, 7:30 p.m. -O- Ray Saturday, September 15, 7:30 p.m. One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) Godard Films Saturday, September 15, 9:20 p.m. Sauve qui peut (la vie) Godard Films Friday, September 21, 7:30 p.m. Mizoguchi Saturday, September 22, 7:30 p.m. The Heavens Call Russian Sci-Fi Saturday, September 22, 9:00 p.m. Planet of Storms Russian Sci-Fi Friday, September 28, 7:30 p.m. Nayak ( The Hero ) Ray Saturday, September 29, 7:30 p.m. Passion Godard Saturday, September 29, 9:10 p.m. Prénom: Carmen Godard Friday, October 5, 7:30 p.m. Sanshô the Bailiff Mizoguchi Saturday, October 6, 7:30 p.m. Aelita Russian Sci-Fi Saturday, October 6, 9:30 p.m. Cosmic Voyage Russian Sci-Fi Friday, October 12, 7:30 p.m. Monihara Ray Saturday, October 13- Sunday, October 14 Selling Democracy Special Event Friday, October 19, 7:30 p.m. The Life of Oharu Mizoguchi Saturday, October 20, 7:30 p.m. Je vous salue, Marie Godard Friday, October 26, 7:30 p.m. Ray Saturday, October 27, 7:30 p.m. Nouvelle vague Godard Saturday, October 27, 9:10 p.m. Détective Godard Friday, November 2, 7:30 p.m. Ray Saturday, November 3- Sunday, November 4, Tales from Planet Earth Special Event Friday, November 9, 7:30 p.m. Utamaro and his Five Women Mizoguchi Saturday, November 10, 7:30 p.m. JLG/JLG – auto-portrait de décembre Godard

1 Friday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Mizoguchi Saturday, November 17, 7:30 p.m. Éloge de l'amour Godard Friday, November 30, 7:30 p.m. Mizoguchi Saturday, December 1, 7:30 p.m. Notre musique Godard Friday, December 7 - Sunday, December 9, Polish Film Festival Polish Film Festival Friday, December 14, 7:30 p.m. IFVC Show IFVC Show Saturday, December 15, 7:30 p.m. Histoire(s) Godard du cinema (Parts 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B) Sunday, December 16, 4:00 p.m. Histoire(s) Godard du cinema (Parts 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B)

FULL DESCRIPTIONS BY CHRONOLOGY

Friday, September 7, 7:30 p.m. Ugetsu Monogatari , 1953, 35mm, b/w, 97 min. In Japanese with English subtitles Directed by With , Machiko Kyô, , Sakae Ozawa

In sixteenth-century Japan, a potter is seduced by a beautiful woman who turns out to be a phantom. With its beautifully atmospheric, long-shot, long takes and graceful camera movements, Ugetsu is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever made. Winner of the at the Film Festival.

Saturday, September 8, 7:30 p.m. To the Stars by Hard Ways (Cherez ternii k zvezdam) USSR, 1981, 35mm. color, 118 min. In Russian with English subtitles Directed by Richard Viktorov With Yelena Metyolkina, Vadim Ledogorov, Uldis Lieldidz

Boldly going where no man has gone before, the starship Pushkin finds an abandoned vessel with one surviving crew member, a gynoid who seeks the help of earthlings to restore her severely polluted home planet. After the fall of the USSR the film became a cult hit and was restored by the director's son in 2001.

Saturday, September 8, 9:40 p.m. First on the Moon (Pervye na lune) Russia, 2005, 35mm, b/w and color, 76 min.

2 In Russian with English subtitles Directed by Alexei Fedorchenko With Aleksei Anisimov, Viktoriya Ilyinskaya, Viktor Kotov

This Russian mockumentary seamlessly mixes authentic and faked archival footage to tell the “secret” story of Russian cosmonauts who beat the U.S. to the moon by 30 years. But Fedorchenko’s debut film also has a dark side, telling the story of heroes who become victims of Stalin-era oppression.

Friday, September 14, 7:30 p.m. Kapurush-O-Mahapurush (The Coward and the Holy Man) , 1965, 35mm, b/w, 139 min. In Bengali with English subtitles Directed by With , , Gitali Roy

Two classics based on short stories: In Kapurush (The Coward ) a screenwriter meets his former girlfriend, now married to another man. In a series of flashbacks, he remembers their relationship and separation due to his own fear of commitment. Mahapurush (The Holy Man) is a cultural farce about a devout Hindu family that falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.

Saturday, September 15, 7:30 p.m. One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) , 1968, 35mm, color, 100 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With the Rolling Stones, Anne Wiazemsky, Clifton Jones

At the band’s request, Godard agreed to film the Rolling Stones. Footage of the Stones rehearsing “Sympathy for the Devil” is intercut with staged scenes featuring a Black Power group and “Eve Democracy” (Wiazemsky) in Godard’s attempt to demonstrate that even members of rock’n’roll bands are laborers in a Marxist struggle.

Saturday, September 15, 9:20 p.m. Sauve qui peut (la vie) France, 1980, 35mm, color, 87 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye

The relationship between money and sex is investigated through the entwined stories of a prostitute and a couple in the midst of a break-up. Godard’s first theatrical release since 1971’s Tout va bien, Sauve qui peut (la vie) remains a very experimental work, and demonstrates his mastery of film sound.

3 Friday, September 21, 7:30 p.m. Street of Shame (Akasen chitai) Japan, 1956, 35mm, b/w, 87 min. In Japanese with English subtitles Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi With Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, , Michiyo Kogure

Rumors about an impending anti-prostitution law affect the lives of five women working in a district brothel named Dreamland. Powerful in its indictment of women’s oppression, Mizoguchi’s last film stars an ensemble of Japan’s finest actresses. According to Donald Richie, Street of Shame is “the best of all films examining the problems of women in postwar Japan.”

Saturday, September 22, 7:30 p.m. The Heavens Call (Nebo zovet) USSR, 1959, 35mm, color, 80 min. In Russian with English subtitles Directed by Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr With Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich

This tale of an aborted Mars expedition features spectacular "spacescapes", as well as a prescient depiction of the Earth's orbit as cluttered by manmade satellites. Sound familiar ? Francis Ford Coppola liberally borrowed footage from this Russian Sci-Fi film for his 1963 directorial debut, the Roger Corman production Battle Beyond the Sun.

Saturday, September 22, 9:00 p.m Planet of Storms (Planeta Bur) USSR, 1961, 35mm, b/w, 83 min. In Russian with English subtitles Directed by Pavel Klushantev With Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Gennadi Vernov

Upon arrival to Venus, cosmonauts find furious volcanoes and sundry prehistoric beasts in Klushantev’s film, based on a novel by the Soviet sci-fi writer Aleksandr Kazantsev. Footage has been recycled in three Corman productions: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet , Queen of Blood , and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich).

Friday, September 28, 7:30 p.m. Nayak (The Hero) India, 1966, 35mm, b/w, 120 min. In Bengali with English subtitles Directed by Satyajit Ray With Uttam Kumar, , Bireswar Sen

Famous actor Arindam (legendary Bengali actor Uttam Kumar) is forced to travel by train from Calcutta to New Delhi for an award ceremony. Aditi, a young journalist,

4 interrogates him on the way, causing Arindam to re-examine his life through a series of flashbacks and dreams. This thoughtful character study based on Ray’s own screenplay won the 1966 Special Jury Award in .

Saturday, September 29, 7:30 p.m. Passion France, 1982, 35mm, color, 88 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Radziwilowicz

Flanked by an array of international art cinema heavies, Radziwilowicz plays a desperately trying to finish his film, each shot of which is a reproduction of a painting masterwork. Raoul Coutard won the 1982 Technical Grand Prize at Cannes for his cinematography.

Saturday, September 29, 9:10 p.m. Prénom: Carmen France, 1983, 35mm, color, 85 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel

Footage of the Quatuor Prat ensemble rehearsing Beethoven (not Bizet) is inserted into this cops-and-robbers story of the relationship between a policeman, Joseph, and his prey, Carmen, who pulls a bank heist with a group of terrorists. Dubbed a “Western” by Godard, Prénom: Carmen won the for Best Film at 1983’s .

Friday, October 5, 7:30 p.m. Sanshô the Bailiff (Sanshô dayû) Japan, 1954, 35mm, b/w, 123 min. In Japanese with English subtitles Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi With Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayaki, Kyôko Kagawa

In eleventh-century Japan, a family disperses after the father is exiled by a cruel governor. The mother (the legendary Kinuyo Tanaka) is sold as a courtesan, and the children are sent to a remote province as slaves. According to David Bordwell, Sanshô is one of the ten best films in the history of cinema. Winner of the 1954 Venice Silver Lion.

Saturday, October 6, 7:30 p.m. Aelita, Queen of Mars USSR, 1924, 35mm, b/w, silent, 90 min. Russian intertitles with live English translation

5 Directed by With Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli

Based on Tolstoy’s novel, Aelita is the world's first feature film to use interplanetary travel as its main plot line. A brilliant engineer and a crusty soldier travel to the Red Planet to find it inhabited by meek humanoids and ruled with an iron fist by the beautiful Aelita. A unique set design captures Soviet Constructivism at its most unhinged. Followed by the short film Interplanetary Revolution.

Live piano accompaniment by David Drazen .

Saturday, October 6, 9:30 p.m. Cosmic Voyage (Kosmicheskiy reis) USSR, 1936, 35mm, b/w, silent, 70 min. Russian intertitles with English translation; pre-recorded score. Directed by Vasili Zhuravlev With Sergei Komarov, K. Moskalenko, Vassili Gaponenko

This effects-filled story follows renegade space traveler Pavel on his voyage to the moon and offers a startlingly realistic technological prophecy. In spite of a rocket named after Stalin, the film is full of anti-doctrinal individualism.

Friday, October 12, 7:30 p.m. Archivist Joe Lindner (Academy Film Archive) in person Monihara (The Lost Jewel) India, 1961, 35mm, b/w, 61 min. In Bengali with English subtitles Directed by Satyajit Ray With Kali Banerjee, Kanika Majumdar, Kumar Roy

Concerns over length and subtitles forced Ray to release (Three Daughters) internationally without the episode Monihara. Near an empty mansion, a schoolteacher tells the story about the estate’s former owner and his jewel-obsessed wife to a hooded man, who turns out to be the owner’s ghost.

Archivist Joe Lindner will introduce Monihara and talk about this recent restoration by the Academy Film Archive.

Saturday, October 13 and Sunday, October 14 Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan 1948-1953 “Selling Democracy” celebrates the 10 th Anniversary of the Center for German and European Studies. The films of this series were a key component of Secretary of State George C. Marshall’s recovery program for the European nations devastated by World War II. Unavailable to American audiences for over 40 years, the more than 200 propaganda films produced between 1948 and 1953 are now being restored thanks to the efforts of Sandra Schulberg, whose father was Chief of the Marshall Plan Motion Picture

6 Section. The Cinematheque will host two programs of Marshall Plan propaganda shorts; the series will continue October 16 and 17, location TBA.

Arts Night Out Saturday, October 13, 7:30 p.m. Program One: Out of the Ruins The seven short films in tonight’s program concern the reconstruction of the “enemy” countries Germany and Italy. The mutations of America’s foreign policy approach to these countries can be mapped across these films, from the heavily anti-German Hunger to the Cannes-prize winning Houen-Zo, and its optimistic portrayal of Rotterdam’s rebuilding.

Sunday, October 14, 4:00 p.m. Program Two: Help is on the Way Our second program of Marshall Plan shorts includes seven films that embody the can-do spirit of the recovery effort before anti-Communism set in. Tonight’s films tackle such topics as drought ( Land Without Water ), productivity ( The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk ), and the “future” generation ( Hansl and the 200,000 Chicks ), with ebullient optimism.

Friday, October 19, 7:30 p.m. The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna) Japan, 1952, 35mm, b/w, 144 min. In Japanese with English subtitles Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi With Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune, Hisako Yamane

Based on Saikaku Ihara's 1686 novel, the film chronicles the tragic demise of Oharu, an imperious court lady of the Edo period who is exiled from to the countryside for falling in love with someone below her class, Katsunosuke (Mifune) The Life of Oharu won the International Prize at Venice in 1952. Mizoguchi considers it his masterpiece.

Saturday, October 20, 7:30 p.m. Je vous salue, Marie (Hail Mary) France, 1985, 35mm, color, 107 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste

Condemned by the Catholic Church as sacrilegious, Je vous salue, Marie situates the Immaculate Conception in modern-day Switzerland. The angel Gabriel arrives by jet to alert Marie, a teenager committed to abstinence, and her boyfriend Joseph, a cab driver, of the coming miracle. Accompanied by Anne Miéville’s short, Le Livre de Marie .

7 Friday, October 26, 7:30 p.m. Seemabaddha (Company Limited) India, 1971, 35mm, b/w, 110 min. In Bengali with English subtitles Directed by Satyajit Ray With Barun Chanda, Parumita Chowdhury, Sharmila Tagore

This powerful psychological drama follows young executive Shymal as he immerses himself in corruption. He confides in Tutul, his sister-in-law, who loses all respect for him. This is the second film of the Calcutta or City Trilogy (after ) which studies the city’s deleterious effects of Calcutta on educated youth, and the price they have to pay for success.

Saturday, October 27, 7:30 p.m. Nouvelle vague France, 1990, 35mm, color, 90 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With , Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine

France’s treasure, Delon, stars as a drifter picked up by a fabulously wealthy woman (Giordano). Godard returns to the tracking shot as a stylistic structure for the philosophical conflict that develops between the wandering man and the aristocratic woman within the rigid class structure of her estate.

Saturday, October 27, 9:10 p.m. Détective France, 1985, 35mm, color, 95 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With , Alain Cuny, Jean-Pierre Léaud

French pop superstar Hallyday plays opposite Fellini favorite Cuny and Godard veterans Brasseur and Léaud. The interests of four “families”—the Chenals, the Mafia, a pair of hotel detectives obsessed with a two-year-old murder, and a boxing promoter and his associates—collide in this film that Variety compared to Grand Hotel.

Friday, November 2, 7:30 p.m. Jana Aranya (The Middleman) India, 1976, 35mm, b/w, 131 min. In Bengali with English subtitles Directed by Satyajit Ray With Satya Bandyopadhyay, Satya Banerjee, Pradip Mukherjee

Unsuccessful in his job hunt and eager to prove to his father that he can be a success, Somnath becomes a middleman in Calcutta’ s thriving business district. Soon he stumbles

8 into a corrupt world that he can’t escape. This clever, engaging satire on capitalism and moral integrity is the last film of Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy .

Saturday, November 3 - Sunday, November 4 Tales from Planet Earth

“Tales from Planet Earth” is an environmental film festival sponsored by the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison, to be held November 2-4, 2007, in Madison. The Festival will screen more than fifteen films at the Cinematheque, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Orpheum Theatre, many of which will be introduced by guest speakers and followed by audience discussions. Premieres by award-winning documentary filmmakers Sarita Siegel and Judith Helfand will be part of the program. The festival’s featured speaker is Bill McKibben, the noted environmental writer, who will participate in activities throughout the weekend. For more details, please see: www.nelson.wisc.edu/tales/

Friday, November 9, 7:30 p.m. Utamaro and his Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna) Japan, 1946, 35mm, b/w, 94 min. In Japanese with English subtitles Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi With Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô, Hiroko Kawasaki

Jealousy, lust and deception run high in this fictionalized account of Japanese woodblock print artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Mizoguchis’s most autobiographical film was also one of the first period films made in Japan under the American occupation. Roger Greenspun (NYT) called the , eye-level photography, “virtually a test of vision for the audience.”

In cooperation with the Chazen Museum of Art’s exhibition Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School .

Saturday, November 10, 7:30 p.m. JLG/JLG – auto-portrait de décembre France, 1995, 35mm, color, 62 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With Jean-Luc Godard, Geneviève Pasquier, Denis Jadót

Shot on 35mm for television, JLG/JLG eschews the tropes of autobiography but remains a deeply personal work. Slowly, from a voice on the soundtrack and then a shadowy, distant figure, Godard eases himself into view in this self-portrait that Steven Holden called “a humorous and melancholy reflection on the state of cinema and the world.”

9 Friday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Zangiku monogatari) Japan, 1939, 35mm, b/w, 142 min. In Japanese with English subtitles Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi With Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada, Gonjurô Kawarazaki

In 1885 , a young actor is expelled from his clan because of his unprofessional attitude toward the art of Kabuki. He is saved from misery by the family’s maid. Celebrated as a masterpiece of cinema style (a fluid camera captures entire scenes in single shots), Zangiku monogatari is often viewed as the first of Mizoguchi’s mature works.

Saturday, November 17, 7:30 p.m. Eloge de l’amour (In Praise of Love) France/Switzerland, 2001, 35mm, color, 97 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy

A director decides a woman he once knew is perfect for his film, only to learn of her death. In a flashback, he recalls their initial encounter at the home of two Holocaust- survivors selling their story to Hollywood. Godard creates a striking contrast between the two periods, switching from black-and-white 35mm to color DV

Friday, November 30, 7:30 p.m. Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai) Japan, 1936, 35mm, b/w, 69 min. In Japanese with English subtitles Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi With , Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya

In the Gion, Kyoto’s traditional pleasure quarter, sisters Umekichi and O-Mocha bring different attitudes to their work, the first traditional, the latter cynically modern. Mizoguchi’s radical style (static long-shot, long takes) is positively breathtaking. The Japanese award for best film of the year, that Sisters of the Gion received was well- deserved.

Saturday, December 1, 7:30 p.m. Notre musique France, Switzerland, 2004, 35mm, color, 80 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard With Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer

10 Godard returns to the Balkans with this film modeled on Dante’s three kingdoms. Two ten-minute segments—the dissonant found-footage assemblage “Hell” and the lyrical “Heaven”—bound the hour-long “Purgatory,” a writer’s conference featuring JLG himself. J. Hoberman called Notre musique “the most lucid and affecting of the master’s recent films.”

Friday, December 7 - Sunday, December 9 Polish Film Festival One of our most popular events, the Polish Film Festival returns to the Cinematheque this December. Co-sponsored by the Polish Students Association and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), this year's festival continues to bring innovative new Polish films to Madison. All screenings are TBA. For an updated schedule please check our website at cinema.wisc.edu.

Friday, December 14, 7:30 p.m. IFVC Show

Highlighting works produced in Communication Arts Film and Video Production courses at UW-Madison, as well as work by other local filmmakers, this 90-minute program is curated by the instructors of these courses and gives new filmmakers the opportunity to present their work on screen for the first time.

Saturday, December 15, 7:30 p.m. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Parts 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B) France, 1988-1998, Beta, color, 148 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Godard launched his epic video project for French television in the late 1980s and continued it over a decade. A history, many histories, a story, many stories—Histoire(s) du cinéma is neither entirely a historical nor personal account of cinema, though it is both those things. To call it a video “collage” would be an exercise in understatement: Godard densely packs layers of sound and image into each shot for a stunning visual and aural experience.

Sunday, December 16, 4:00 p.m. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Parts 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B) France, 1988-1998, Beta, color, 114 min. In French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Our two-evening presentation of Histoire(s) du cinéma continues with the last four “tomes” of Godard’s video history, perhaps his greatest creative contribution of the 1990s.

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